“And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.”
She was pregnant and cried out in labor pains as she was about to give birth - the birth pangs evoke Isaiah's prophetic language of Zion's travail (Isa 26:17-18, 66:7). This cosmic woman represents not merely Mary, but Israel and the church in their travail of bringing forth the messianic age.
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